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A murdered journalist, after five were murdered 2 months before, attracted little media attention - with the post-coup election on in Australia in 1975 & the US wanting us to ignore the #Timor invasion. We mostly complied - only his family, friends, & colleagues to bat away. ../2 
No #DFAT investigation, no #AFP witness statements, no government interest, but just words. Our government maintained the Indonesians cover story that he’d fled to the hills - despite knowing he was summarily shot in public in front of dozens of living witnesses in December 8.
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I interviewed still distraught eyewitnesses in 1995 for a SMH article. The killers lived prosperous careers, retired to a genteel life in Java, doting on their grandkids, occasionally telling old war stories but only to old war mates. …/3
